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TONY COKES: BLACK CELEBRATION
PRESS RELEASE
In “Black Celebration,” Cokes merges newsreel footage of riots in the 1960s with popular music and text commentary to create a counter-reading of rioting as a refusal to participate in the logic of capital, as an attempt to de-fetishize commodity through theft and gift.
PRESS RELEASE
In “Black Celebration,” Cokes merges newsreel footage of riots in the 1960s with popular music and text commentary to create a counter-reading of rioting as a refusal to participate in the logic of capital, as an attempt to de-fetishize commodity through theft and gift.
Feb 15 2019![]()
Still from "Black Celebration" (1988) Digital video, 17:11 duration, b/w.
Still from "Black Celebration" (1988) Digital video, 17:11 duration, b/w.